Worried by the
high level of corruption in the Nigerian University System (NUS), the Senior
Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) has made an appeal to the
federal government to investigate the nation’s universities.
SSANU Lagos
State University (LASU) chairman Mr. Oseni Saheed, who dropped the bombshell,
said that corruption in Nigerian universities is of a greater scale than in
other sectors, recommending that university administrators found wanting be
prosecuted.
Regarding the
conduct of some vice chancellors, Saheed told the Daily Sun “SSANU is the only
union in the NUS challenging the excesses of VCs. Some VCs sees themselves as
demigods. Government has given VCs too much power.”
On the Federal
University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB)
crisis, Saheed asked the federal government to suspend without delay the
pro chancellor, vice chancellor and the bursar who were arraigned in court by
the EFCC for alleged corruption running into N800 million.
“The best
thing government can do,” he said, “is to ask the VC, pro chancellor and bursar
to step aside until the case at the Ogun State High Court, Abeokuta, is over.
At the moment, the trio must step aside so that investigation will not be
tempered with. The government is in the best position to ask the VC and others
to step aside.”
On Friday, the
EFCC arraigned FUNAAB governing council chairman, Senator Ogunlewe, Vice
Chancellor Professor Olusola Oyewole, and the Bursar, Mr. Moses Illesanmi, on
an 18-count charge of stealing, abuse of office and fraudulent conversion of
university property. The indictment was made at the Ogun State High Court,
Abeokuta, before Justice O.O. Majekodunmi, based on a petition by university
workers
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